Earlier this week students at Weledeh Catholic School, St. Joseph School and St. Patrick High School took part in a student summit on technology and innovation.

Students in the Yellowknife Catholic Schools (YCS) technology leadership program called 'TechSperts' helped run sessions for over 700 of their peers, with two days full of tech-based learning activities on Monday and Tuesday.

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Part of the TechSperts' role is to build a presentation or workshop around a technology tool to teach others about.

During workshops last week, students used VR headsets to tour inside the International Space Station (ISS), flew drones, used augmented reality to learn about the solar system and learned about coding.

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The purpose of the summit is to teach young people who are digital natives new approaches to and uses for technology, beyond the various social media platforms they use in their daily lives she said.

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